"Postmodernism, Irony, the Enjoyable"
Oct. 2nd, 2007 09:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alixtiiI was going to post some of Eco's passage in Postscript to "The Name of the Rose" where he discusses postmodernism, but I was feeling lazy and felt like playing with my new toy besides. And so I offer you a recording of me reading "Postmodernism, Irony, the Enjoyable." Even in translation (or was the Postscript written in English?), Eco's prose is quite pleasing to the ear, I think, even if the recording itself is rather quick and dirty with only the worst slips edited out.
(It occurs to me that Vox, where the recordings are currently hosted, doesn't seem to permit downloads. If anyone is interested in downloading this recording or one of my audiofics, comment here and I'll e-mail it to you or upload it to sendspace or the like.)
One can see how my "postmodernism is a mode of reading" can be extrapolated out of this, but he doesn't actually, on re-reading, seem to make the theoretical move explicit. It all depends, I think, on how we interpret the phrase "transhistorical category" (is a category something which organizes thought, or a natural division?).
(It occurs to me that Vox, where the recordings are currently hosted, doesn't seem to permit downloads. If anyone is interested in downloading this recording or one of my audiofics, comment here and I'll e-mail it to you or upload it to sendspace or the like.)
One can see how my "postmodernism is a mode of reading" can be extrapolated out of this, but he doesn't actually, on re-reading, seem to make the theoretical move explicit. It all depends, I think, on how we interpret the phrase "transhistorical category" (is a category something which organizes thought, or a natural division?).